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Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:10:04 -0800
Subject: Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
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Joseph Myers wrote:

As Linux 2.6.32 has been announced to reach end-of-line next month
<https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/29/647>, I propose that for glibc 2.24 we
require Linux 3.2 as the minimum kernel version when glibc is used on
systems with the Linux kernel and there isn't already a more recent
architecture-specific minimum.


Yes, this makes sense.

This would continue to be the minimum
until 3.2 reaches EOL (currently listed as May 2018 at
<https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html>).

Sounds good too. Just to clarify, I assume that when 3.2 reaches EOL this wouldallow us to raise the minimum kernel version, but it wouldn't oblige us to.

References:
- Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
  - From: Joseph Myers

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